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B2. Baird, Dennis; Mallickan, Diane; and Swagerty, W.R. ed.; Encounters with the People: Written and Oral Accounts of Nez Perce Life to 1858 [2015] 2015

Encounters / With the People / Written and Oral Accounts of Nez Perce Life to 1858 / Compiled and edited by Dennis Baird, Diane Mallickan, and W.R. Swagerty / WSU / Press / Washington State University / Pullman, Washington

Text Contents: “1 Literature on Nez Perce History Prior to 1877, by W.R. Swagerty,” “2 Accounts Written by Nez Perce People,” “3 In the Mountains,” “4 The Earliest Written Accounts,” “5 Lewis and Clark among the Nez Perce, 1805-1806,” “6 David Thompson and Alexander Henry among the Nez Perce, 1809-1812,” “7 Donald Mackenzie and the Astorians, 1811-1813,” “8 The Hudson’s Bay Company and the Fur Trade in Nez Perce Country, 1821-1855,” “9 Botanist David Douglas Visits the Clearwater, 1826,” “10 Encounters Outside the Heartland” “11 The Nez Perce Visit the East, 1831-1832,” “12 Captain Benjamin Bonneville among the Nez Perce, 1832-1834,” “13 Protestant Missions in the Clearwater Region,” “14 Early Catholic Accounts of the Nez Perce,” “15 The Nez Perce in the Cayuse War, 1847-1850,” “16 The Start of the Indian Agency in the Clearwater Valley,” “17 The Nez Perce in Oregon Territory, 1850-1854,” “18 Year of the Treaty, 1855,” “The Nez Perce People in the Wars of 1855-1858”

Description: Collection of written and oral accounts of and/or by the Nez Perce tribe or members of the Nez Perce tribe up to 1858.

B3. Chief Joseph. Excerpt from “An Indian’s View of Indian Affairs.” In Northwest Passages: A Literary Anthology of the Pacific Northwest from Coyote Tale to Roadside Attractions edited by Bruce Barcott, 7-10. Seattle, Washington: Sasquatch Books, 1994. Originally published in North American Review. (April 1879).

Description: Fictional story about the love affair between a man previously married to a Nez Perce woman and a woman reluctantly following her husband along the Oregon Trail. Explores the complicated relationships amongst traders, immigrants, and the Nez Perce.

Description: Fiction story of a man named John Crane and his reunion with his half brother, Tall Bird, a member of the Nez Perce tribe, during a time of political violence and social violence along racial lines.

A Difficult Passage / (A forgotten tale of the Oregon Trail) / Whitman Mission Murderers Remain / at Large; a Regiment of Mounted Riflemen Is Ordered to Bring Them In / by / Bonnie Jo Hunt / and / Lawrence J. Hunt / “The mules were poor, unbroken, and by no means / calculated for such a march… the drivers were not / only stupid, but totally ignorant of their duty….” / Major Osborne Cross, May 20, 1849 / A Lone Wolf Clan Book, Vol. VII

Description: Fictionalized story of the volunteer army sent to punish the members of the Cayuse tribe responsible for the attack on white settlers and the Whitman family at the Whitman Mission during the measles epidemic brought on by the white settlers. Among the army is a half-Nez Perce man named Michael Two Feathers. Features other Nez Perce characters and mentions of the Nez Perce tribe.

Cayuse Country / A Flood of Emigrants Cross the ‘Big / Open’ Threatening to Overwhelm the / Cayuse Homeland / by / Bonnie Jo Hunt / and / Lawrence J. Hunt / Will you ever begin to understand the meaning of the / very soil beneath your feet? From a grain of sand / to a great mountain, all is sacred… / A Lone Wolf Clan Book, Vol. IV

Death on the / Umatilla / Whitman Mission Murderers Are at / Large; a Volunteer Army Attempts / to Bring Them to Justice / by / Bonnie Jo Hunt and Lawrence J. Hunt / “If I give up my men that killed the settlers, to let / them be tried by your law, will you give up / your men that killed our women to let / them be tried by our law?” / Captain Jack, Modoc / A Lone Wolf Clan Book, Vol. VI

Description: Fictionalized story of the volunteer army sent to punish the members of the Cayuse tribe responsible for the attack on white settlers and the Whitman family at the Whitman Mission during the measles epidemic brought on by the white settlers. Features Nez Perce characters and mentions of the Nez Perce tribe.

Raven Wing / A Tal of Love and Spiritual Seeking / Embroiled in a Clash of Cultures / by / Bonnie Jo Hunt / & / Lawrence J. Hunt / … Do not forget every dawn as it comes is sacred, / and every day is holy, for the light comes from / your Father… And also you must always remember / that the two-leggeds and all the other people / who stand on this earth are sacred and / should be treated as such. / White Buffalo Woman, Oglala / A Lone Wolf Clan Book, Vol. II / Revised Edition 1999

The Last Rendezvous / A Tale of High Adventure and Tragedy / in the Final Days When Mountain Men / Reigned Supreme / by / Bonnie Jo Hunt / and / Lawrence J. Hunt / … We have now to deal with another race— small and feeble / when our fathers first met them but now great and overbearing. / Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and / the love of possession is a disease with them. / Sitting Bull, Lakota / A Lone Wolf Clan Book, Vol. III

Description: Fictionalized story involving the Nez Perce and mountain men in the mid-1800’s. The story concerns the last ‘rendezvous’ of the mountain men, where they would emerge from the mountains to collect supplies for the coming year.

C17. Hunt, Bonnie Jo and Hunt, Lawrence J.; The Great Powwow (The Day Mother Earth Was Stolen Away): A Lone Wolf Clan Book [2004] 2004

The Great Powwow / (The Day Mother Earth Was Stolen Away) / Thousands of Indian People Are Promised a / New Life If They Will Give Their Homelands / To the Great White Father / by / Bonnie Jo Hunt / and / Lawrence J. Hunt / This country holds your father’s body. Never sell the bones of your father and mother…. / Dying words of Tuekakas, father of Chief Joseph, Nez Perce / A Lone Wolf Clan Book, Vol. IX

C19. Hunt, Bonnie Jo and Hunt, Lawrence J.; Vision Seeker (Patriarch of the People in Peril): A Lone Wolf Clan Book [2005] 2005

Vision Seeker / (Patriarch of a People in Peril) / Their Precious Horses Were Slaughtered, / Their Lodges Burned and Food Storehouses / Destroyed. What Does the Future Hold? / by / Bonnie Jo Hunt / and / Lawrence J. Hunt / “I could not help thinking that there was a better way to deal / with Indians than to begin conquering sword and / follow it up with starvation… / General Oliver O. Howard, US Army / A Lone Wolf Clan Book, Vol. X

Description: Fictionalized story of western expansion through the eyes of the Lone Wolf Clan as steam engine trains begin to come to the west. Features Nez Perce characters and mentions of the Nez Perce tribe.

Description: Fictionalized story of Eliza Spalding Warren, daughter of Henry and Eliza Spalding, missionaries to the Nez Perce. Eliza Spalding Warren finds her mother’s diary and looks through it to discover more about her past.